Higgins v. . Sharp’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably Johnson v. . Johnson (1912), Hunt v. Hunt (1909)
55 state decisions — followed in 12 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Brinkley v. . Brinkley · Griffin v. . Griffin · O'Dea v. . O'Dea · North v. North
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It seems to us, therefore, that actions to annul a marriage are governed, with respect to alimony and counsel fee, by the same principle as all other actions for divorce.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gore v. Gore
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.